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Jasmine’s family home is like a forgotten memory, it’s time worn walls echo secrets from boxed pictures shown to her by Grandma Bessie. It is both sanctuary and prison where her grief clings like the accusatory notes she receives. The loss of her parents in an auto accident causes a deep void that she attempts to fill with lies and aberrant sexual behavior. The fear of discovery forces her on a journey. A path woven with secrecy, longing, love, spiritual, and historical discovery. With the fragile promise that truth not only sets you free, but it heals.

Sera Kincaid is a successful attorney who's just lost everything: her marriage, her stepchildren, her house, and her carefully constructed life. Armed with boxed wine, questionable dating app choices, and a snarky boss who doubles as her sometimes-best friend, Sera embarks on a chaotic journey through hookups, heartbreak, and hard-won self-discovery.

Michael is a bounty hunter for the Lochwillow tribe, his bounties? Lost she-wolves. During the great wolf war between the Lochwillow tribe and the Discardeds, she-wolves and cubs were scattered across time for their own protection. It’s time to bring them home. Julia gets headaches every full moon and sleeps during the cycle, only to wake up to a bed filled with dirt, leaves, and, sometimes, blood. She’s never told anybody. Not even her best friend.

In 1772, angry Rhode Island colonists set fire to a British ship, sparking the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a motivator. So was the vengeful, man-eating mermaid who had it out for the commanding officer. That was then. This is now. Mermaids, or merrow, still hunt in Narragansett Bay, but these days they keep a lower profile. At night, centuries-old Nomia seduces smutty frat boys, lures them into icy waters, and feeds them to her voracious kin. By day, she and her half-breed daughter attempt to blend in at the coastal Village Playground.

Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating the end of the era of economic growth, and that the only sustainable alternative is the development of a steady state economy.

The first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, in the beautiful poetic language of the King James version, tells the story of creation and traces the genealogy of the chosen people of God. Here are the stories of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (renamed by God as Israel), ending with Joseph's descent into Egypt, with God's promise to them of future greatness.

Brilliant, unconventional college senior Trace Pennington has eked out an impoverished, solitary, but highly functional existence in the years since she ran away from her abusive home. But when Trace finds love with a much older man, her life is upended and she's forced to face herself and her past.

In 1972, deep in the Appalachian wilderness, a bus carrying Catholic schoolgirls and their nun chaperone, Sister Lucy, is lost and stranded in the foreboding woods of West Virginia. The travelers are cut off from civilization, isolated in hostile terrain. The forest harbors dark secrets, and they are not alone. A clan of cannibalistic mountain men, grotesquely disfigured by generations of inbreeding, lurk in the shadows. Driven to the brink of extinction by their own sterility, they hunt for outsiders to sustain their bloodline, focusing on the busload of women they believe can save them.

Cops sometimes rely on hunches to guide them, but Detective Maddy Wimsey takes it a step further: Magic. August opens with the bad omen of a suicide that she suspects is more than it appears. However, before she can even start to find evidence that won't get her a date with a shrink, an even worse case walks in the door. A local nurse claims she suspects one of her co-workers of murdering patients. Unfortunately, the woman has even less evidence than Maddy's belief that a spirit is throwing people off tall buildings. However, something about the story rings too true to brush aside.

The next breakout star in the grand tradition of Southern literature! A debut that introduces the most charming, mischievous, unforgettable heroine since Scout Finch. Possum Porter has had it with change. First she lost Mama, leaving a hole nothing can fill. And now, instead of trying to return to some kind of normal, Daddy's sending Possum to school. A real school, where you have to wear SHOES. Where some Yankee teacher will try to erase all the useful things Mama taught Possum during their lessons at home.

It has been the public's perception that Madoff investors were all extremely wealthy and all belonged to exclusive clubs. This perception has been reinforced by the media and the powers that be. The truth is, with very few exceptions, such as Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Picower and Stanley Chais, most were average, small time investors. This is their story.

Clara Colby—widowed mother of a fourteen-year-old daughter—inherits her grandmother’s farmhouse, fifty acres, and the Burton Grayson Memorial Animal Shelter. Uprooting herself from Chicago to rural Wisconsin wasn’t easy—but how hard could it be to run an animal shelter? Harder than she imagined. When Clara finds the shelter’s most devoted volunteer murdered inside a dog kennel, police arrest her father for the crime. Now Clara and her identical twin sister must uncover the real killer before an innocent man is sentenced to life in prison—and their family is torn apart.

This is the coming-of-age story of a sensitive, whimsical girl, with an over-abundant curiosity about everything from the power of touch to reincarnation. Determined to live an extraordinary life, Sephe seeks a path out of ordinary suburbia into the world of acting and true love. When her flirtatious superpower leads her into a den of wolves, she must learn to differentiate her allies from the wolves that will devour her, leading her to wonder: Why is punishment the reaction to her sexuality?

When Corey James Parker gets bitten and is transformed he is required by vampire law to register at his local chapter. He does not. And now there’s a contract out on him.

Lexi Miller restarted her life five years ago and has been living a regimented routine ever since. With a great job and a best friend who tries everything to get her to break-out of her boring life, it’s not until her birthday present arrives at her door, opened by a stranger, that things finally start to get interesting.

Donna is the first female trainer for the Miami Dolphins. She has worked her way up the organization because of her love of the game and the team. The team has been great for her over the years. Lucas has been the best QB wherever he goes. It started in High School where he met and fell in love with Donna. She was his everything. Except they had different career goals.

Most brides have some anxiety over their wedding, but not too many have to worry a dead person might spoil it. Detective Maddy Wimsey is looking forward to her handfasting to Caius. Mostly. She’s simultaneously on edge and can’t wait. About the only thing capable of going wrong is her catching a homicide investigation complicated enough to push back the date.

They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions.... A woman named Jaguar tries to rehabilitate these killers by establishing a telepathic link with them and divulging their worst fears. But now she's about to face the most challenging subject of her career: the ultimate assassin, a dangerously disturbed woman who will teach Jaguar the true meaning of fear.

"Wesley Hunt was always considered strange." And so this quirky, offbeat short story by the witty and wonderful Canadian author and actor Robert Jadah begins. Wesley's odd behavior, however, is accompanied by unique abilities in regard to discovering hidden treasures. His kind of Easter egg hunt is not the one you'd likely expect.

Twin Falls Academy — a seething hub of overprivileged trust-fund babies and indulged elite — and my new alma mater. I’m an orphan. I am the unwashed masses that they can’t stand and they never miss an opportunity to grind that message home. Especially Rosalie Evers, the queen bee who rules with a manicured grip wrapped around the throats of everyone trapped beneath her. But I don’t care what they think. I’m just doing time at Twin Falls until I can get back to California for college.